Abstract [en]

Aim: The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the demographic factors of gender, age and work experience affect the ethical values. The study will also examine the ethical codes within companies influence the ethical values of given situations among vendors in service.

Clarification: With the given situations meant the situations described in the survey (Annex 2).

Method: In the study a quantitative method was used in which a survey with closed response options was sent out to 863 respondents. In the survey both nominal- and ordinal scales was used to allow correlation, factor, cluster analysis and t-tests with the IBM SPSS computer software. The analyzes were then used to answer the research questions that deduced through the theory.

Result: The results showed that age only has a weak connection with a real estate broker's ethical values and is thus not a decisive factor in this case. The second demographic factor sex was found to have no connection at all with a real estate broker's ethical values. In a further analysis using the t-test where an analysis of both sexes was made, it was found that there was no difference between men and women and ethical values. The results also showed that work experience has no significant relationship with a real estate broker's ethical values.

Contribution: The purpose of the study is to investigate whether gender, age, work experience and ethical codes affect the ethical values of given situations among vendors in service. Our hope is that the study should be able to contribute with additional information about what it is that can affect a real estate broker's ethical values.

Proposal for further studies: Our hope is that further research to develop the results that the study contributed. Proposal for further studies is to investigate other demographic factors that may affect the ethical values and if the leader of the company is a possible influencing factor, but also if a survey for Sweden’s all real estate broker´s would make the outcome different.